I fancy a really sad book that can’t be put down. Any suggestions?
I fancy a really sad book that can’t be put down. Any suggestions?
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I fancy a really sad book that can’t be put down. Any suggestions?
The Nightingale.
Me before you xx
Not necessarily. That book is like Marmite
Firefly Lane.
The Book Thief
You’re going on holiday. Cheer up and chose a romantic book or funny
The Book Thief as above, or A Thousand Splendid Suns, or for a breathtakingly sad and astonishingly challenging book, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.
The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult. it ripped my heart out, so beautifully writteen and incredibly sad.
The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller (although it’s mostly sad at the end – it is very emotional though).
Pieces of you by ella harper.
I didn’t think the boof thief was very emotional
I didn’t find book thief emotional or that wonderful compared to Nightingale!!
I just finished the dressmaker of dachau. couldnt put it down.
Watch Over Me by Christa Parrish and Christmas Jars by Jason F Wright
Me before you
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Nightingale. French resistance love story
Man and boy, Tony Parsons
Thanks everyone. I have downloaded loads and now on my way out to buy some tissues!!!
A little life – harrowing but amazing read
Bev, you’re the third person who’s recommended it, think we’ll have to give it a go!
@Janine – it’s honestly one of the best books I’ve read. Takes awhile to get into the characters but worth it. Let me know what you think
Will do, thanks X
Any holiday recommendations janine??
Also recommend A Little Life, just finished it and it was so sad and beautifully written.
A thousand splendid Suns.
A Little Life
Fault in our Stars can’t remember who wrote it but I was sobbing.
John Greene
Firefly lane kristin Thomas I really enjoyed it
Light Between Oceans
This is really good
Firefly Lane or Me X Before You
Charlotte Grey by Sebastian Faulks
Two Brothers by Ben Elton
Ohhhh I’d forgotten these. Both wonderful. Must dig them out.
The saddest of all: Between shades of gray
@Amanda – Will they remember me!!!!!! I promise you, you will sob beyond belief…… My husband even balled his eyes out!!!!!
Can’t find this is that the title – ‘will they remember me?’
@Allie, yes sweetie xxxx
Will you remember me?
Think it’s part of a series – is that right?
@Allie no, u can read Poppy Day first, but I didn’t… It makes no difference xxx
It’s Will YOU Remember Me?
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah or the storyteller Jodi Picoult
Boy under the table
Night Road. Make sure you have boxes of tissues!!!!
Born survivors by Wendy holden
Sarah’s key
This is a really sad book that you cannot put down
The Nightingale. The Lost Wife.
The last road home, I cried pretty much through the first two parts!
Just finished. Calling me Home by Julie Kibbler If anyone liked The Help you will enjoy this one
Gertruda’s oath
Once we were brothers
Deconstructing Amelia.
The last days of Rabbit Hayes
Firefly lane – Kristin Hannah
The Time Travellers Wife
Our Song. Dani Atkins.
Once we were brothers by Ronald h blason x
Am I the only one who cried in our fault in the stars because the bad thing happened to the wrong character? ?
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini, And the mountains echoed or The book thief. ( thats only if you haven’t read them already.)
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Me without you by Kelly Rimmer .
Excellent for sadness
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Me before you
Brilluant
Have you read the storyteller by Jodie Picoult? I really enjoyed that. Sad moments !
A little life
Leaving Time
A little life ??????
Anything by Mitch Albom!
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent..a gripping book with an unreal twist..xxx
HMS Surprise by Patrick O’Brian. You can’t believe what hits you. Very well written.
The story teller x
Without a shadow of a doubt
“A Little Life ” by Hanya Yanagihara.
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I cried like a baby.
Me before you; forever is over
Me before you
Tipperary Mary
Dear Mother by Angela Marsons. Amazing book.
Some others The first last kiss by Ali harris; bittersweet by Noelle adams; me without You by Kelly rimmrr; love of my life by Louise Douglas
Interpreters of malady by jhumpa Lahiri. And The disobedient wife
I second!
Born Survivors
The BOY IN THE SUITCASE….
the last lecture by randy pausch, the fault in our stars john green, bridges over madison county…
The nightingale by kristin Hannah made me cry ?